Two-man have been arrested for duping banks of crores by getting credit and debit cards issued by the use of stolen personal data. The accused Raja Saxena and Kautilya Sharma were arrested by Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force from a crossing near Gaur City Mall on Tuesday evening after officers received a tip-off.
Raja and Kautilya were wanted in connection with stealing personal data, including PAN, voter IDs and Aadhaar cards, of working professionals, along with their salary slips.
The accused would use the information to obtain credit and debit cards and carry out transactions worth lakhs. Dozens of IDs and cards have been recovered, the STF said.
Police said Raja is from Rajasthan and Kautilya is a resident of UP’s Hathras. Raja came to Delhi in 2007 and worked as a recovery agent associated with a bank. That’s when he met Kautilya and they both moved to Greater Noida West.
Police have recovered personal data of more than 6,000 customers and IDs of more than 25,000 people from the mobile phones of the accused.
They have also found 19 salary slips of various company employees, along with 29 fake Aadhaar cards that were used in the fraud, said an STF official.
